Not keeping up so well.....

We manage to keep fairly BUSY all the time with homeschooling. I sometimes manage to update my regular (Coleman Chaosity) blog, but clearly am falling behind on this one.

We've been on several field trips and tomorrow is the last day of Treehouse. There's also a big meeting there to set up officers and such, and decide classes and organization as one of the founders is moving away, and the other two (founders? I guess?) don't want to assume the presidency or vice presidency of the organization. I did not volunteer for Pres. or VP exactly, but did say that I would be willing to fill one of several other positions. We'll see how that goes tomorrow.

Wednesday we have a fieldtrip to the Stanley's tire bale home in Rogers. It sounds- well, tedious at best to me (from their perspective, I mean if *I* were building a tire bale home) but ought to be an interesting fieldtrip. Here are some links about it: FreShare article and Zimbio article. I recently heard something about filling plastic 2-liter bottles with concrete for insulation? I'll try to remember to take my camera.

Never having found the Saxon math items I was purported to have, I've decided to try Sinapore math for real now. My understanding is that is isn't repetitive, and once you 'get' it you can move on. DBall doesn't love rehashing the same thing over and over.... it kind of traumatizes him. I'm optimistic this math will 'work' for him.

I've yet to find anything other than what I call "comic books" (graphic novels, Peanuts books, Marvel comics all bound together, etc.) that DBall will read without complaining. He does enjoy the Black Lagoon series, but they're really short and he's read all that we can find here. I love to read, and I just can't understand why he doesn't love it?! Well, obviously I know his father hates to read so clearly he gets it from his father. What I guess I don't understand is why he got the OCD and perfectionism from me, and couldn't at least have gotten my love for reading as well.

Alright my head is pounding. I think I've found a Dr. who in theory accepts my medical insurance and also prescribes Armour Thyroid. I need to make an appointment with him for myself this week. Also need to make dental appointments for DBall and I at a new dental practice nearby. Aball has made himself an appointment with a LASIK surgeon to have his surgery the last week of May.

So I never found the Saxon math.....

and I'm looking into Singapore math for the time being. I'm fairly satisfied that D-Ball's on target for his grade level (maybe a little above) and AceBall is fairly proficient at math and encourages him to do more. There are many positive reviews online; I've yet to find a negative one. I'm not sure if this is because they're all advertising for Singapore math, or because no one has any qualms with it? It doesn't seem to go over and over and over stuff ad nauseum- which is positive because neither I nor DBall can deal with that.

Alright I have to go now. :) I'm excited that we're moving out of this house, and remain concerned that I'm not concerned whetehr or not I can properly educate my child.

From main blog (Coleman Chaosity) 1st April 2009

We did finally start Time 4 Learning. DBall did a lot of math yesterday, and some language arts + Science today. He really likes the Science best, but they have very few of them on that site/program. Going to have to send him to Celeste's for Science enrichment activities every week.

In regards to homeschooling, I kind of wonder why I'm not worried. I mean, I can't actually figure out what my mindset on the topic is. I thought I would be concerned that I couldn't do it, or that he would be "behind" (behind what exactly, I don't know). I haven't ruled out putting him back in public school if we decide that's what he needs, but for the moment I don't think that's what he needs. He was a pretty good bit ahead anyway, but I hope I'm not subconsciously slacking because I figure "he's ahead of the game anyway....."? I'll have to ponder it some more. I've prayed about it, and I still feel like this is the right thing to do. I'm still surprised that I'm not more worried for some reason.

Today we had TreeHouse and that went pretty well. I asked him if he liked all 3 of the classes he's taking there (I have to pay for them, after all) and he indicated that the first one wasn't "all that". I asked if he'd like to drop it, and he said,"No, I don't hate it... and I do have friends in that class!"LOL. There's only 3 people total in the class.

Tomorrow is library, plus T4L and typing in the afternoon I'm thinking. I totally forgot about typing today- I should write that down. I didn't get my daily chore done today, but tomorrow is open so I can work it in there. Presently I don't even recall what it is. I really love the vacuuming days since we got Paco (the roomba).